Cambodia logs 825 new COVID-19 cases, 21 more fatalities

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PHNOM PENH, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Tuesday reported 825 new COVID-19 infections including 421 imported cases, pushing the national total caseload to 68,796, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement.

 

Twenty-one more fatalities had been confirmed, taking the overall death toll to 1,149, the ministry said, adding that 1,022 other patients recovered, raising the total number of recoveries to 61,039.

 

MoH's secretary of state and spokeswoman Or Vandine urged people to keep their guards up and to go for COVID-19 vaccines when their turns come.

 

"Everyone must strictly implement three do's and three don'ts now to suppress virus circulation," she wrote on Twitter. "Your life is depending on your good care."

 

The three do's include wearing a face mask, washing hands regularly, and maintaining physical distancing of 1.5 meters, and the three don'ts are avoiding confined and enclosed spaces, avoiding crowded spaces, and avoiding touching each other.

 

The Southeast Asian nation launched a COVID-19 vaccination drive on Feb. 10.

Vandine said that so far, some 6.06 million people, or 60.6 percent of the 10 million targeted adult population, have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

 

Meanwhile, Cambodia on Tuesday began an inoculation campaign for foreigners in northwestern Siem Reap province, the kingdom's major tourist hub.

 

"Foreigners who have been working and living in Siem Reap will get the COVID-19 vaccination free of charge and based on voluntary principles," said a Siem Reap Provincial Administration's statement.

 

Foreigners who are willing to get the vaccine can register for the jab at the Siem Reap Municipal Administration, the statement said, adding that the inoculation site is in the complex of Siem Reap Referral Hospital.

 

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